Published 2016-04-17

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A DISCUSSION ABOUT PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ENTREPRENEURS IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURE’S IMPACT. (2016). Business & Management Studies: An International Journal, 4(1), 63-83. https://doi.org/10.15295/bmij.v4i1.133

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A DISCUSSION ABOUT PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ENTREPRENEURS IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURE’S IMPACT. (2016). Business & Management Studies: An International Journal, 4(1), 63-83. https://doi.org/10.15295/bmij.v4i1.133

Abstract

Economic, social, cultural, and technologic changes in globalized world have increased the need to production and entrepreneurship which has an important place in all economies in terms of development. The people who will realize enterprise are individuals having entrepreneurial characteristics. Because it can be considered that to determine the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs will be able to contribute to identifying candidates for the entrepreneurship and directing
them. To determine entrepreneurial characteristics also benefit to identifying deficiencies and eliminating them. In this context, explanation of different characteristics peculiar to entrepreneurs and evaluation of them in terms of various cultures are aimed in this theoretical study which is based on literature review.

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